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Make your company cards exactly how you want them. Pick from thousands of layouts, three paper forms, and include gloss, increased text, or a metallic finish.
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You know for certain that everyone you meet, and also wish to remain in touch with, has the latest technology for exchanging information digitally, and knows how to use it. Not everybody has a smartphone. Not everybody knows how to use their telephones. Not everyone has the correct version of the app you need to use for getting and giving contact information.

You’re able to danger looking forgetful or fly-by-night. People at our current stage of evolution still appear to be paper-oriented creatures. (Unless you are networking with a time-traveler from the near future, or Vox from the entire world Xibatron.) If a person asks you for a business card and you need to reply, “I don’t have one”, they can get the impression that you simply walked from the office without them by error. That can make you seem flighty. Or they might think you have not been in business long enough to print cards. Or that you jump into and out of business ventures often. In any event, not owning a business card can diminish your credibility.

You do not mind becoming submerged in the flood of information that’s coming in your prospects. When you look through your stack of snail mail, what are you going to pull out and read? How about a handwritten envelope? The identical principle makes a printed business card noticeable in the tidal wave of e-info your prospects deal with daily.

Let us acknowledge it : Printed business cards usually do kill trees. Thus, let us be sure those green wonders do not perish in vain. Here are suggestions for creating your printed business cards a successful advertising instrument:

Pick paper. Decide on a paper inventory that’s inviting to touch. Maybe a little thicker than the average card. Not too much texture to the outside, but maybe not absolutely smooth either. And make sure the color of your paper inventory will not change the colors of what’s published onto it, whether that is a full-color photo, or your business’s logo. No mustard-yellow paper to your glowing red emblem, as an example. (I speak from bitter experience.)

Utilize either side. This helps because most of us have so many pieces of contact information now. Using both sides gives you more room to describe custom URLs and social media links.

Change the dimensions. Since your card probably doesn’t have to match in a Rolodex anymore, is it a different size? How about a larger card that folds to the conventional 2 x 3.5 dimensions?

Change the contour. Rectangles aren’t required. Can your printing vendor change the contour, even marginally, without raising the cost by much? Ask about rounding the corners (also called radius corners), or using an present die from a preceding project.

Printing fewer cards at one time. Contact info and job titles vary quickly. Print in smaller quantities at a time to remain flexible. If your card needs to incorporate a fancy, pricey touch (such as a custom made die-cut, embossing or foil-stamping), then see if you can print “shells” with places left blank, so the cubes can be put back on the media and overprinted with that new info in smaller batches once the time comes. Printing fewer also provides you more flexibility to try including more or different information on your card. As an example, you may try adding a QR code to your card, print 50-100, and determine how folks respond.

Have more than 1 card. Who says you can not have two (or more) different versions of your cards? Try out a version with more contact info, or distinct kinds of contact info. Maybe a version that highlights among your company’s capabilities more than the remainder.

Consider an un-card. I have seen fortune cookies, military “dog tags”, oversized film tickets, wooden clothespins, playing cards, guitar picks and drink coasters used as the foundation for outstanding cards. For inspiration, accumulate examples of business cards you like before you re-design or reprint your next batch of cards.

Using Your Company Cards Well

Now that you have got a new batch of cards you’re pleased to hand out, here’s a refresher on using them well:

Stash ’em everywhere. In numerous places: briefcase, pockets, glove box. In each of these areas, save the cards in some kind of case that is somewhat different. It can be a conversation-starter.

Use them in the right time. Attempt to escape the habit of thrusting a card at your contact also early in your initial conversation. Build rapport by discovering things in ordinary first, then swap cards only before you part ways.

Ask for (and give) seconds. When you’re buying cards, ask your new contact for two of his/her cards. Start looking for chances to pass that excess card to a third contact who may need your new contact’s services. Similarly, offer two of your cards.

Make notes, discreetly. Most of us want a memory-jog by the time we sit down to really do something with business cards we have received. As soon as you can do it politely, write a few notes about your new contact on the trunk or in the margins of the card you received from him/her. But avoid writing on a person’s business card in front of him or her. This can force you to appear forgetful, or make that individual feel as though you’re defacing what he/she closely handed to you.